Actors Quotes - Page 61

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the performances that I saw in his movies.

I'm not a method actor; I hope you know that!

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.